These ordination certificates people can purchase are all well and good, but officially they mean essentially squat. In order to perform any sort of official duties, you need a "Letter of Good Standing" from your organization. Is it possible for someone who actually wants to accomplish something, and not just hang a pretty picture on their wall, to receive a Letter of Good Standing from the Church of The Flying Spaghetti Monster?

I have my certificate proudly posted on my wall. But I recently registered to marry two couples at the end of this month in NV, and I had to provide not just a letter of good standing, but these foreign corporate documents:http://www.themonastery.org/documents/corp/the-monastery-NV-corporate-qualification.pdfFortunately ULC isn't picky about ordinations and such, so I can offer services as an ordained Pastafarian monister, function wherever ULC allows me to function, and Bobby doesn't have to go through all the bull necessary to "officially" register CFSM.

pieces o'nine wrote:Have you considered what constitutes 'good standing' among those with officially flimsy morals?

1) There's an erection joke in there somewhere. But more seriously,

2) Pastafarians have flimsy moral standards; but their moral performance tends to be robust. As opposed to say ordained Catholic priests, whose moral standards are high, but whose performance is so often not.

Vasco Pyjama asked Mr Curly: What is worth doing and what is worth having? Mr Curly replied: It is worth doing nothing and having a rest.-- The Curly-Pyjama Letters

Thankie...We still have some work to do on the chasuble (the big red poncho with the little stripper and sharks on it), we're going to decorate it like a pirate captain's coat. And the stole will have stylized FSMs on the bottoms of the front and one on the back. I'll post more in that album when it's done.